Careers Job Description
General Description
- Supports the Office of Student Success with a variety of college wide retention initiatives including: New Student Orientation, At risk population workshops, Early semester registration (including the recruitment for the JUMP START program) and claiming your college E-Mail campaigns, completing SPARC, Degree Works tutorials, CUNYfirst workshops, etc.
- Work with the Director of the Student Success Center to establish a needs assessment to provide equity to the distribution of SPARK and Rudin book voucher funds.
- Track the distribution of textbook vouchers using the Assist Me App, SPARK fund and the KCC Rudin fund.
- Liaison to our Kingsborough Now in the Neighborhood Community Partners and BKON partners; represent KCC at recruitment events; be the assigned academic advisor to our shared students.
- Assist students with concerns/issues involving the areas of financial hardship and academic difficulties and resolves them appropriately so that they can stay enrolled in college.
- Support the Office of Financial Aid in assisting students with completing their FAFSA and provide information to these students about the requirements necessary to receive federal and state aid.
- Monitor and supervise the CARA Peer Leader program: develop programming, oversee the workshops and supervise the Peer Leaders and the student cohorts.
- Collaborate with the Office of Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Freshman Services, Learning Communities and Single Stop
- Be knowledgeable about degree requirements and be able to meet and provide academic advisement to students.
- Interacts with all offices on campus
- Ensures strict confidentiality and sensitivity in all aspects of office operations.
- Performs related duties in all areas of Student Affairs as needed.
- Able to work evenings and weekends during peak times.
Other Duties
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree required. Two years of work experience.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to establish priorities, manage multiple demands and projects, and meet deadlines.
- Knowledge of all areas relating to Student Affairs.
- A strong student service orientation required.
- Ability to take initiative, resolve problems diplomatically and discreetly and work effectively, cooperatively, and independently with all levels of staff and students.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Dean of Student Affairs
Full Time
$50,000.00 - $53,000.00
Oct 30, 2018 (Or Until Filled)